SINGAPORE - In a 10-hour crackdown that lasted from Wednesday, 5pm until the wee hours of early morning on Thursday, Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) officers conducted a series of island-wide operations on more than 16 locations to arrest immigration offenders and their abettors. By about 4am the next morning, the ICA officers rounded up a total of 54 offenders ranging between 19 and 75 years old. They included six Singaporeans, four women and two men, who are now being investigated for harbouring and/or employing these foreign immigration offenders. 48 foreigners from Bangladesh, China, Nepal, India and Sri Lanka were also arrested. The 38 men and 10 women were mostly overstayers. A few had run away from their employers. They admitted that they had come to Singapore to seek illegal employment and that they had no fixed employer. These offenders had been working ...